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Qigong

Next on Thursday 22 October, 2pm – 2:50pm.

Thursdays from 6th August – 2pm til 2:50pm

A weekly 50-minute Qigong class. Reduce stress and increase energy levels through focus on breath, posture, and gentle movements. All the exercises can be done standing or seated. Expect to have some fun!

Qigong is the cultivation of energy through movement, breath, and intention. Qigong movements are slow, smooth, and intentional.

These classes will be led by Emma Young, who some of you might know from our Tai Chi classes

To find out more or to book your spot, please contact us at events@duncanplace.org

Weekly, on Thursdays
£6 (paid by cash or card each week on arrival)
2 pm – 2:50 pm
For adults (minimum age 18)

Spaces are limited. Get in touch asap if you are keen.
Email us at events@duncanplace.org

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What’s changed — and why

Design notes on this event page · Qigong

1This one stays exactly as it is

A drop-in is a drop-in. No booking, no form, no data collected — the page just says so plainly. Making every session bookable would be easy and wrong: it would put a barrier in front of a £2 session that works because there isn’t one.

2Most of the programme should not be bookable — and isn’t

Six modes, assigned per series: drop-in (Music Circle £3, Craft £2, Qigong £6 — untouched), roster (Chair Yoga, Laughter), block (Tai Chi, Choir), ticketed (workshops, cinema), external (other organisations), and private. Any series can move between them with one field, and every one keeps its email fallback. This is a smaller change than it looks — on purpose.

3This page is your WordPress, live

The title, description, image and dates all come from The Events Calendar you already maintain — fetched when the page is built, not copied, not migrated. Staff keep the tool they know and keep working exactly as they do now. The only new thing anywhere is who holds the bookings.

4The link survives the block rolling over

Your calendar renames each recurrence — this page is …-3. Booking is matched on the stable part of the name, so when the next 8-week block starts and the number changes, the button keeps working. Small thing; it’s the sort of small thing that silently breaks a booking page six months after launch.

5Private hires stop appearing here — but still block the room

Today “Private Booking” entries sit on the public calendar because that calendar doubles as the room diary. On one shared grid they can do their real job — holding the room — without being advertised to the public. Your what’s-on page gets cleaner for free.

6No fee on top of your price, and the list is yours

Eventbrite turns a £3 Music Circle into £3.83 for the person attending — +28% on a session priced to be affordable. It also holds 762 followers that Duncan Place cannot email. Booking on your own site charges your price and puts those people on your list.

7Nothing here is a real booking yet

The booking pages run on invented participants and no live payments. Real names start only once the privacy notice, retention schedule and processor agreement are in place — which is a first task, not an afterthought, because half of what is being sold here is handling people’s data properly.

Prepared for Duncan Place by Michal Szyszka · every figure quoted here comes from duncanplace.org, your Terms of Let or your OSCR accounts

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